[erlang-questions] Erlang Scheduler for Recurring Events

[Jon Watte]

I second the use of timer:send_interval. Your gen_server can use this within
init(), and will get   timer messages sent to its handle_info() callback.

Sincerely,

jw


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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Anders Nygren <anders.nygren@REDACTED>wrote:

> Hi
> I think that the simplest way is to just use timer:apply_interval or
> timer:send_interval
> from stdlib.
>
> /Anders
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Hank Knight <hknight555@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to scheduler a number of recurring events using Erlang.  Some
> > events need to be triggered every second, some every three seconds and
> > some every minute.  Any simple advise on how to do this or what tools
> > to do?
> >
> > - Hank
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